Carrying basket

Museum number:

1-10114

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21010010114

Alternate number:

230 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.216, Acc.217, Acc.218, Acc.220, Acc.222, Acc.226, Acc.227, Acc.229, Acc.230, Acc.231, Acc.234, Acc.235, Acc.236, Acc.237, Acc.238, Acc.241, Acc.242, Acc.243, Acc.244, Acc.245, Acc.246, Acc.249, Acc.250, Acc.251, and Acc.254

Object count:

1

Description:

Carrying basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Willow (Salix). With reinforcing hoop about half-way down from rim and two leather hoops. Basket is open diagonal twined. Decoration is absent.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett

Collection place:

Sheep Ranch, Calaveras County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Calaveras; Sheep Ranch

Culture or time period:

Eastern Miwok

Maker or artist:

Ina

Collector:

Samuel A. Barrett

Collection date:

1906

Materials:

Hazel shoots and Willow (wood)

Taxon:

Corylus cornuta californica and Salix

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Carrying baskets and Twined weaving

Function:

1.4 Transportation

Accession date:

1906

Context of use:

Used to pick up acorns.

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Dimensions:

length 44 centimeters and diameter 39.5 centimeters

Comment:

Native name and meaning: "tcilele". For materials, see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 40.

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